Why is the argparse module so inflexible?

[Modulok]

Have you looked into docopt?

-Modulok-


On Fri, Jun 28, 2013 at 7:36 PM, Ethan Furman <ethan at stoneleaf.us> wrote:

> On 06/27/2013 03:49 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
>
>>
>> [rant]
>> I think it is lousy design for a framework like argparse to raise a
>> custom ArgumentError in one part of the code, only to catch it elsewhere
>> and call sys.exit. At the very least, that ought to be a config option,
>> and off by default.
>>
>> Libraries should not call sys.exit, or raise SystemExit. Whether to quit
>> or not is not the library's decision to make, that decision belongs to
>> the application layer. Yes, the application could always catch
>> SystemExit, but it shouldn't have to.
>>
>
> So a library that is explicitly designed to make command-line scripts
> easier and friendlier should quit with a traceback?
>
> Really?
>
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